a service that organically brings followers,
viewers and possibly
buyers. Our instagram is actually
@FourWallsClothing and our website
is
Fourwallsclothing.
com."

Many may
not know, but two
Clovis High students have started
their own clothing company. We
talked to Glen
Southard and Matthew Speer this
month to ask them
about their company, Four Walls.
Why did you want
to start the company?
Speer: "I wanted
to start the company because I’ve
always been interested in clothing, such as
street fashion, and I wanted
to put our own spin on it and
I knew Glen was a good artist
and could make designs for
the clothes."
Southard: "I thought it would
be fun and I wanted to get
some experience, seeing how
I’m going into the graphic design field in college. Not only
is this a chance to gain some
experience, but a chance to
have some success."

Pictured from left to right: Glen Southard and Matthew Speer

walls of your circumstances."
Southard: "On our first shirt,
it’s a view from above a room
and you can see four walls.
That’s us, we’ve risen above
it."
What makes this unique?
Southard: "We never really
had any hesitation, it was
just like, 'Let’s do this!’, 'Let’s
get this done!', 'Let’s get out
there!' etc."
For our readers, how much
do your shirts cost?
Speer: "Anywhere from $20
to $35. There’s shirts and
jackets and clothes like that."

Where did you come up
with your name?
Speer: "The name Four Walls
refers to the four walls of
your mental state, like your
thoughts and feelings."
Southard: "In another way,
it refers to the kids who can’t
escape Clovis in itself, some
feel like they’re trapped."
Speer: "Yeah, it’s like the four

Did you get any outside
help, or did you start from
the bottom?
Speer: "We’ve funded it ourselves, we’ve started it ourselves, and the only thing that
could be defined as outside

MARCH FOR OUR LIVES:
‘Now, we fight for our lives.’
The one thing that has
rocked the United States
in the last few months is
encompassed into two tiny
earth quaking words: gun

help would be that we bought
some art from an Instagram
artist."
Where do you find the time
to do this?
Southard: "After work, we’ll
both go over to Matt’s house
and brainstorm ideas or we’ll
take weekends. And a majority of our work has to be done
separately because we obviously can’t see each other every single night. I’ll be doing
product design all week and
then I’ll email it to Matt and
he’ll send out the design and
buy the product."
Speer: "He’s more of the design person and I do most of
the business."
How are you growing your
customer base?
Southard: "Our main form of
communication and influence
is on social media. We pay for

What is the driving
force behind Four
Walls?
Speer: "I want to do
something that’s not
a basic job and I can
be creative and even
be my own boss."
Southard: "My motivation is kind of
weird, it’s more
self-perpetual than
anything. Once I got started,
it just keeps going. Everyday, I’m just drawing possible
designs that could be used on
our shirts."
What are your plans for the
future?
Southard: "I want to someday be as popular, but nowhere near expensive as
Supreme. I want to be a
brand that people can allude
to. That’s my goal."
These entrepreneurs
show many forms of leadership in their business, we
wish them all well as they
move on into the future(s) of
their careers.

The Revolution Begins
reform. The past month that
is all you can hear, on news,
television, and social media.
It has become America’s
latest topic, and it doesn’t
seem to go away just yet.
According to data from the

Gun Violence Archive, a
total of 32 mass shooting
incidents occured in January
2017 to April 2018, which
had fatalities of 201 deaths
and many more injuries.
Mass shooting are classi-

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fied by having
four or more
deaths due to
gun violence.
The March
For Our Lives
movement has
began a storm
of talk about
gun reform in
Washington
and all across
the United
States.

happen here,
in a community we
thought was
safe, but it
did. Truth is,
it can happen

anywhere.

That is why
this movement is so
important.
On April
20th, 2018,
there was an
organized
Mass
National
shootings are
School
not just in our
Walkout on
schools; they
the 19th anniare in our
testimonies of teachers, stu- think anything will change in
versary of the mass shootchurches, places of wordents, adults, and survivors
your own community? “Yes.
ing in Columbine to protest
ship, our libraries, nightclubs,
of gun violence and mass
We’re a small town and I
gun violence in schools
movie theaters, concert
shootings. As I watched
think this terrible, terrible
and everywhere. Town
venues, and airports. This
Emma Gonzales, Cameron
smack of reality is something
Halls are being organized
movement is important for
Kasky, David Hogg, Delaney that no town is immune to.
by concerned community
the well being of all people
Tarr, Sam Fuentes, and
This really opened people’s
members, students and pararound America, to protect
others among them who
eyes.” 4) How has this moveents, inviting Senators and
innocent lives. This movestood proudly in front of the
ment made you feel? “It’s
Representatives in states
ment is not about revoking
Capitol, other celebrities
made me sad because we
around the US to begin the
the Second Amendment.
and artists like Lin-Manuel
shouldn’t have to be fighttalk for reform in our cities
This movement is about creMiranda, a writer of the musi- ing to not be risking our lives
and states. The march on
ating new laws and amendcal Hamilton and In The
by going to a school. But I
March 24th, 2018 was not
ments; to universal compreHeights, filled me with hope. think this generation is going
the end of this movement, it
hensive background checks,
Eleven-year-old kids spoke
to be the one that finally
was only the beginning. The
to bringing the Bureau of
of change in gun violence in
changes things.” 5) What is
March For Our Lives motto
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms
schools and in urban comyour school and community
st
is #NeverAgain. This has to
and Explosives into the 21
munities, including MLK’s
doing to organize your own
end with us, to protect ourcentury with a digitized,
granddaughter, nine-year-old part of the March For our
selves and others. These
searchable database, to creYolanda Renee King who
Lives movement? “A group
types of massacres need to
ating funds for the Center for
spoke of her own dream.
was put together by Great
stop. Finally we are standDisease Control to research
There were approximately a
Mills alumni that was able
ing up for what we believe
the gun violence epidemic in
million people who marched
to get charter buses up to
in, for change, for reform, for
America, to a high-capacity
in Washington, D.C., and
the metro to help people
life. This revolution has only
magazine ban along with an
thousands more who had
with transportation to the
begun.
assault weapons ban.
sister marches in other citmarch.” 6) Has the response
ies like New York, LA, and
been positive or negative? “
(Authors note: If you are
I, and many others, are
Chicago.
Positive. We’re a small town
interested in joining the
now labeled into a generation
so we all close and this has
March For Our Lives
called the “Mass Shooting
I spoke to Mollie Davis, brought us together.” 7) And
Movement or are interested
Generation”. This should
a student at Great Mills
lastly, why do you think that
in how you can personally
not be the case in our day
High School in Great Mills,
this movement is so imporimpact your own future, here
and age. Students, or anyMaryland which recently had tant to the future of yourself
are some resources and
body, should not have to be
a shooting, and where one
and others in America? “I
what you can do:
categorized into something
life was lost. I asked her a
think it’s important because
Call/Tweet/Message/Email
as gruesome as this. An act
few questions. 1) What is
this is the first year that kids
your local Senator and State
of gun violence occurred
your name, age, and aspira- born into a post-ColumbineRepresentatives
here, in Clovis, NM, and two
tions? “My name is Mollie
shooting world can vote. This
Register to vote (online and
beautiful souls were lost. It
Davis, and I am in 12th
is a generation of kids that
on paper)
has happened all across the
grade. I want to be a theatre have been raised with school
Go to https://marchforourUntied States, from California
writer, political investigative
shooting drills and watching
lives.com/ for information
to New York, and States
reporter, and foster mom.” 2) shooting after shooting on
on this movement. Other
such as California, New York,
How has the March For Our
the news. We’re tired of it
resources can be found
Ohio, and Florida are all piviLives movement impacted
and we don’t wasn’t a life like
online)
otal in any presidential elecyour school due to the shoot- this for our children.”
tion. Mass shootings are an
ing that occurred in Great
The counter argument to this
epidemic in and of it.
Mills? “A lot of kids who
After speaking with
editorial is going to be in the
weren’t previously planning
her, I realized how something
May issue, so stay tuned.
Before the March
on marching ended up going like a tragedy like this can
For Our Lives march in
to it since it was the weekimpact an entire community,
Washington D.C., and as
end right after our shootand how it can spark a revomany other marches across
ing. I think it opened a lot of
lution. And it has. We never
the US unfolded on March
peoples’ eyes.” 3) Do you
thought that it was going to
24th, 2018, I have listened to

the struggles of Katniss Everdeen in a dystopian society
where kids fight for their lives
in order to give their family

risk. And above all, it teaches
us that true love is out there,
and it may not be there forever.

Many books
have influenced the
lives of everyone
around us. In this
article, we will review some of the
best books that have
greatly influenced
the lives of teens
today. These books
vary from changing
our lives by inspiring
us or by giving most
readers a universal
energy that the author poured into his/
her book(s).
Harry Potter Book
Series
The Harry Potter Series
is said to have raised the
generation it was written in.
The series started in 1997,
introducing us to the wizarding world we know and love
today. The book is about a
humble boy who lives in a
borderline abusive household that finds out that he is
a wizard. He goes to a magical school and learns his gift,
fighting monsters and making many friends/enemies
along the way. This book has
given thousands of people
inspiration to conquer their
own universe, no matter how
ordinary they are
The Outsiders
This classic coming-of-age
story challenges us to see
the best in people in spite of
their mistakes. Not only is
this story by S.E. Hinton a
page-turner, it’s a tear-jerker.
The main character, Ponyboy
Curtis, embarks on a journey
challenging his role in the
gang that he was destined to
be in. After an accident with a
rival gang, Johnny and Ponyboy flee, bringing the rest of
the gang together and causing a major fight with a rival
gang.
The Hunger Games
This book series by Suzanne
Collins has provided many
teens and adult readers a
vivid escape to read their
ways into. This series shows

food. The book series teaches us to step up for what is
right and question the status
quo.

The Hobbit/Lord Of The
Rings
This book series is a fictional
scape that shows the advenTo Kill A Mockingbird
ture of Sam and Frodo BagThis classic book challenged gins as they destroy the evil
many societal norms when
force wrecking Mordor. This
it was released. From the
series teaches its readers
perspective of a young girl, a that we need to be courachildhood marked by racism
geous when life faces us with
is not what Scout Finch want- a challenge. The series by
ed. She thought in a simpler
J.R.R. Tolkien also teaches
and more equal way than the that we must never lose hope
adults of her white supremist and that even though we may
neighborhood. When her wid- not be the best people, we
owed father takes the case
can change the world.
of Tom Robinson, an African
American, Scout doesn’t
Narnia Chronicles
see anything wrong with it,
The Narnia Chronicles is the
though the entire town of
Lord Of The Rings equivaMaycomb detests it. Near the lent for children. This series
end of the book, a mysterious shows us the wonders that
person in the Finches' neigh- our own imagination holds.
borhood saves Scout and
The books teach us that even
her brother and she finally
in the darkest of times, there
realizes that racism will not
are wonders that we may not
get her anywhere in life, but
know about. It teaches its
sympathy might. This book is readers to be a leader and
not only a standard in today’s not hesitate to take an opporschools, but the meaning and tunity. The series also teachshunning of racism does the
es us to never take Turkish
book justice in itself.
Delight from a stranger.
The Fault In Our Stars
This very popular book by
John Green has influenced
its readers in many ways. It’s
taught us how to live life and
how to quit asking and start
living the answers. The book
shows us how to be happy
in our own world. It shows us
not to hesitate and go for the

The Perks of Being A Wallflower
This book is an inspiring
creation by Stephen Chbosky
which shows us to never take
anything at face value. This
inspirational novel showcases the life of a troubled
teen who has dealt with
mental illness. Although he

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has no friends, he soon finds
it’s okay to be a wallflower.
After opening up about many
things that harmed Charlie as
a child, he sees that
even though damaged, he is okay just
the way he is.
The Divergent Series
This series by Veronica Roth shows
that it’s okay to not
fit into society’s
categories and to
be your own person
no matter what the
consequences are.
In the Divergent
series, everyone is
divided into different
factions based on
the personality traits
a person has. While
some saw this system as a utopia, a girl who
fit into multiple factions saw
through the system and freed
the people of the world from
the tyrannical government
that was secretly controlling
them.
The Uglies Series
This book by Scott Westerfeld is about a world where
the average human is considered ugly and when kids turn
16 they get plastic surgery
to become pretty. After they
become pretty, their personalities change and they move
to a city that is designated for
the pretties only. A young girl
is excited to become pretty
until she meets a group of
people who refused the surgery and learns the dark truth
of what the surgery does.

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Scott Westerfeld wrote this
series that teaches us that
we are perfect just the way
we are.
The Inheritance Cycle
This book is full of adventure,
fantasy, and, most importantly, dragons. When a young
boy that discovers an egg

in the woods, it hatches into
the thing he least expects:
a dragon. When the dragon
hatches, the boy’s world gets
turned upside down and the
only way he can survive is
through the help of his friends
and the dragon. The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher
Paoli shows that it’s okay to

ask for help, and sometimes
even crucial to do so.
Many people consider
books to be just a form of
entertainment but few realize
the messages and life advice
many books give. Books can
provide people with help and

advice from where they least
expect it. If you’re interested
in the messages of these and
other books, stop by your local library to read and check
out some books for some
advice you may be needing.

Viewer Discretion Is Advised

Rose Bradley
Unique McLendon
Staff Writers

There are multiple horror movies
made over the years.
They basically all end
the same. A monster
or person comes after
them, then they run
from it and end up getting captured and die. So
typical, because everyone
knows what is going to happen next. These top seven
stories are different from the
typical. These movies leave
you on the edge.
7. The Lure
The Lure is about two maneating teenage mermaids
who fell in love with the same
human man. The mermaids
lure their prey in by singing,
which is appealing to the
human ears. Their singing is
also called a siren. The Lure
can bite off more neck than
they can swallow. People are
entranced by the mermaids’
seductive transformations
and voices. The movie was
created because in the 14th
and 18th century mermaids
were shown to be cute and
cuddly but the author wanted
to show that not all mermaids
were cute and cuddly. This
is a movie you can show to
people who say all horror
movies are the same. The
movie could eventually function as a metaphorical life
lesson.
6. The Transfiguration
The Transfiguration is about
a boy named Milo, who is
in love with horror and vampires, he even starts killing
people to drink their blood.
Milo thinks that he needs
to drink blood from other
people to survive although
he doesn’t. When he meets
a girl named Sophie, he
starts to change. When they

2. It Comes At Night
It Comes At Night is
about an open wound
of pain, regret, loss and
the mundane ache of
simply existing. It Comes
At Night is about a mysterious apocalypse and
out of the apocalypse
only two families are
alive, they are forced to
live together in order to
met, she was cutting herself. has the ability to communisurvive. It Comes At Night
When he went to talk to her,
cate to all spirits. Maureen
was written after the author’s
he was more interested with
then has an unknown source
father had died, so this movie
the blood on her arms and
sending her ambiguous mesis about how much pain
didn’t care about meeting
sages.
the author was in and what
her. People look at the kid as
loss he feels. In the movie
a child with an inner evil or
3. Raw
he can’t express how much
a modernized update of the
Raw is about a girl who has
family is important to him.
iconic monster.
came to the age of partyHis parents believe that their
ing, drinking, having fun,
seventeen-year-old son is ev5. Prevenge
and learns who she is as
erything to them and believe
a person on the verge of
The Prevenge is about a
that to lose their son would
seven month pregnant wom- adulthood. She just started
be to lose everything worth
an who is a natural butcher.
college and her sister has
living for. The author uses his
This woman murders people already been there for a
personal fantasies to explain
while now. The college was
daily. Her unbirthed child
what living is to a person his
helps her murder people.
for veterinarian schooling.
age. He explains how for
The young girls’ parents are
The child is a small voice
someone who hadn’t fallen
followed by a giggle that tells veterinarians and encourage
in love or started a family, life
the mother that she must kill
their daughter to become a
can’t compare to how imporother people. The Prevenge
vet too, but desperate to fit in
tant family is. The movie uses
is someone or something that she eats raw meat for the first
our human fear of letting go
hates all human beings even time. She didn’t just choose
of the people we love. It also
to eat it, but was forced to
if they are not bad people.
uses the fear of a person
The woman follows a simple
eat duck kidney. She is now
confronting death and losing
addicted to meat. She then
pattern which is kill, reflect,
our loved ones.
recap on what happened, kill, experiences consequences
rinse, lather, and repeat. The as her true self begins to
1. Get Out
Prevenge shows the relation- emerge. In the movie she is
Get Out is about a guy
ship between a parent and a almost entirely as a self-connamed Chris, who is scared
tained metaphor. This movie
child.
to meet his girlfriend’s paris mainly
4. Personal Shopper
about
The Personal Shopper is
canniabout a young girl named
balism.
Maureen, who thinks that she The girl
is seeing her dead twin broth- is now a
er. Maureen is connected to
cannibal
her brother in multiple ways,
and soon
and they even have the same finds out
heart condition but only her
that she
brother died from it. She
is not the
thinks that he is going to try
only canto contact her from the Great nibal at
Beyond. Maureen thinks that the colhe will contact her in his old
lege.
house so she stays there
waiting for him to come. She

ents in fear of them not liking black guys. When they
reach the house, he feels
weird about being there. He
finds out multiple secrets that
he would never expect to
see. Chris finds out that her
grandparents are black and
act very strange. When Chris
first started figuring out that
everything was starting to
become weird was when the

grandma kept unplugging his
phone from the charger. The
grandma was trying to keep
him from contacting everyone
outside from the house. Chris
then found a box full of pictures of his girlfriend dating
multiple black men and black
women. The one picture of
the girl she dated looked
exactly like her grandmother.
After finding out the truth of

everything, he gets out from
the trap, kills everyone, and
is saved by his best friend.
If it wasn’t for his friend, he
would be dead too.
These horror movies
were beautifully, but scarily,
made horror movies. These
top 7 movies accomplished
so much within 2-3 hours.
These horror movies, unlike

Purple Press, April 25, 2018

Don't Hate The Player Or The Game

Donovan Hackett
Staff Writer

Video games
aren’t exactly uncommon in society.
However, these electronic games have
gained a bit of a sports
industry and are slowly
becoming more popular. Gamers of high
skill are paid to play
the games they enjoy
and excel at. This is
the industry known as
e-sports.
Pro-athletes
argue that video
games are not a
sport and should not
be considered as such and
that gamers should not be
dubbed athletes. A sport is
defined as an activity involving physical exertion and
skill in which an individual
or team competes against
another or others for entertainment. As a gamer the
most physical exertion I
have ever done in a game
is rapidly pressing buttons
and selecting weapons to
use. However, it is still exertion and plenty of skill. Thus,
by definition, e-sports are
indeed sports.
These games range
in genres and game-play.
With several games such as
Overwatch and League of
Legends in the field, there is
a lot of variety. While most
games with tournaments
involve teams, some games
are not the case. One such
example of this is the Mortal
Kombat games where competitors enter as single people rather than teams.
Not all games in e-sports
have to be new. Exampled
of this includes World of
Warcraft, Halo 3, and Smite.
One thing all games have
in common however is

an online function. Some
games have an offline mode,
but you are more likely to
find a game with an online
mode that includes dedicated
players and a competitive
system.
Unfortunately competitive modes have several
negative factors. One such
example of a factor happens
to be hackers. If nobody likes
cheaters then they certainly
hate hackers. These people
take the fun out of the game
by killing with cheats and
taking guns and materials
without having to find anything. It is always infuriating
to deal with a hacker and
game developers add antihack software most of the
time. Another problem that
isn’t exactly positive is that
most online games have a
toxic community. Toxic players aren’t uncommon, but
can have negative consequences on the games. In
video games toxic players
are people that tend to be
angry with just about anything in the game. More often
than not the matters that they
complain about are how they
believe their team is incompetent, a bad team composi-

5

other horror movies, came
from personal life stories.
These movies were not just
picked by myself, but were
voted over around the school
and others from outside of
school. These top seven
movies were the most popular 2017 movies in Clovis,
NM.

world cups and
leagues are rarely
held in the same
place two times in a
row. This is to give
more people in the
world an opportunity
to pay less for travel
or not have to travel
at all. People and
teams from all over
the world play these
games and I personally support it. People
travel from faraway
places for a common
purpose whether they
are competitors or
audience. Nobody is
here to create strife,
but rather play their
game and have fun playing
or watching and not letting
prejudices reign supreme.
These sports bring people
together and, while I have
never personally been to
one, think that these events
are quite amazing. Let it also
be known that these tournaments are often streamed on
twitch, YouTube, or their own
website.
Esports are fun for
all people involved. Players
getting together and playing their game is great, but

tion, or believing that people
are letting the enemy team
win (this is also known as
throwing) and will often throw
themselves
Communities have
been working to fix these
problems and have actually
been quite successful. Anticheat software has caught
a multitude of cheaters and
banned them from the game
either temporarily or permanently. Toxicity is not quite as
addressed, but some games,
such as Overwatch, include
a report
system
where
you can
report
abusive or
harassing chat
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do not
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to think these pro gamers
were once like us. We can
rise to be just as good or
even better than these gam-

ers. The problem of cheaters
and toxic players is growing
smaller and smaller. These
tournaments encourage unity

and fun. All in all, esports
how these games advance
should be encouraged in my along with their competitive
opinion. I don’t think I am the scenes.
only one excited to see about

Krystal Mailman
Elizabeth Schneider
Staff Writers

the Commander’s Call, it was
the first time in our JROTC’s
history that a cadet was ever
given this award.

Commander. The Group
Commander is the cadet in
charge of the entire corps.
Following the Group Commander is the Director of

groups of cadets, are properly run. They watch over
the Flight Commanders and
assist them with any issues
they may have.

During this Commander’s
Call, cadets took on new
leadership roles. There are
five cadets known as “top
staff” who are the highest
ranking cadets in JROTC.
Top staff starts the chain of
command, which determines
who is in charge and whom
to ask questions or report
an issue to. At the top of the
chain, there is the Group

Operations, who oversees
operations such as personnel information management, and teams. Third in
command is the Cadet Chief
Master Sergeant, whose job
is to ensure all enlisted personnel are properly taken
care of. The last two positions in top staff are Squadron Commanders; their job
is to ensure that the flights,

The Squadron Commanders
after this Change of Command are Cadet 2nd Lieutenant Ryan Chadbourne and
Krystal Mailman. Following
them is our new Chief, Cadet Chief Master Sergeant
Mykal Morrison. Next in line
is the new Director of Operations, Cadet Major Isaiah
Hatfield. Last but not least,
our last Group Commander
was Cadet Col. Corde’ Mailman, she passed down her
command to Cadet Major
James Burroughs, an upcoming senior. When asked how
he felt about his new position
he stated “It is truly an honor
to lead such an outstanding
group of young leaders. I can
truly see these young men
and women paving the future
of our generation.” These
new commanders will have a
difficult year ahead of them,
but with work and dedication
they can make this year great
for our JROTC.

year, he sees that a felon,
Sirius Black, had escaped
prison. The next summer,
Harry takes every chance he
gets to hear news about the
infamous Sirius Black.In the
Order Of The Phoenix, Harry
is taken to the Order Of The
Phoenix Headquarters and
faces the wrath of boredom.
Rowling is unique about
starting her books the same

way, yet making the situations totally unique. And no
matter what happens, we rest
assured that Harry is unhappily safe and sound at the
Dursleys every year.

A Ceremony: Commander's Call

On February 14, 2018, the
Clovis High School Junior
Reserve Officer Training
Corps (JROTC) had a Commander’s Call. Throughout
the event many things happened, such as: donating the
school a flag that was flown
on a C-130 in a combat mission, promoting new cadets,
instilling new leadership,
accepting a donation from
the Cannon Spouses’ Club,
and recognizing a cadet who
recently received the second
highest ribbon in JROTC.
The Silver Valor Award is
the second highest ribbon
in JROTC. The ribbon is
awarded to a cadet for a
voluntary act of heroism that
does not put their own life
at risk. Cadet Major Isaiah
Hatfield received this award
for performing CPR on his
stepmother after she passed
out, effectively saving her life.
When Hatfield was presented
the Silver Valor Award during

J.K. Rowling Comes of Age

Ryan Perkins
Co-Editor

In the December Issue of the Purple Press, I
wrote an analysis about the
first and second Harry Potter books in the series. This
month, I reviewed Harry
Potter and The Prisoner of
Azkaban, Harry Potter and
The Goblet of Fire, and Harry
Potter and The Order Of The Phoenix.
Rowling begins all her novels
back at the Dursleys
house. She uses her
words to describe
the perils that engulf
Harry every summer throughout the
three books. One

didn’t go to Diagon Alley, a
magical place to buy wands,
clokes, owls, and cash in
some galleons (wizarding
money). In The Order Of
The Phoenix, Ron Weasley’s
mother goes to Diagon Al
Rowling almost seems ley for the kids, so the place
to have the same setting
isn’t completely cut out of
line for every book because
the book. In all of the books,
until Order Of The Phoenix,
Harry keeps in touch with
there wasn’t a year that Harry a character that was introduced in the Prisoner
of Azkaban, Sirius
Black, who was the
prisoner of Azkaban
and also happened
to be Harry’s godfather. This character
is said to be one of
everybody’s favorite
character, including
mine, though, he
passes in Order Of
The Phoenix. Black

is a man that Rowling uses
her words to describe but not
explain, causing a handful of
mystery, which can be either
negative or positive, depending on the reader.
Once at Hogwarts,
Harry, Ron, and Hermione
always come across a problem, whether it be helping
elves, stopping the Lord
Voldemort, finding a solution to the Goblet of Fire

challenge, or stopping the
notorious Dolores Umbridge.
Rowling uses her characters
and the passion that they all
bring to solve the problems
that she faces them with. Although the odds are stacked
against them, the trio overcome all of their troubles with
little to no trouble.
One of the greatest
things throughout this part of
the series is the slow pro-

gression from a children’s
book to a more dark, sinister
and more realistic setting and
plot. As the books evolve,
so do the characters. Harry
grows older and in The Order Of The Phoenix, Harry
becomes a teenager, (not
good). Throughout the book,
Harry complains about almost any inconvenience and
becomes moody.

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necessarily the best of the
books, but they are definitely
the most important for the
transitional period of Rowling’s writing. The books are,
as always, phenomenal and
an amazing read that captures its readers and takes
them to another universe.
If you are interested in this
series, visit your local library
and read today!

These books are not

"More Than Meets The Eye" Pt. 2

Austin Hodges
Editor-In-Chief

Last Month, we covered mostly about the emotional and psychological
effects that color has on our
minds. However, this month
we would love to expand our
ideas about some physical
implications color has on our
world. A color is a valuable
tool, not only in civilization
but also in nature.
Red: Red is used
both in civilization and in
nature as a form of warning or attention-grabbing. In
civilization, red is commonly
used on stop signs, emergency vehicle, and EXIT

sign are universally red. Dim
Red light is used over white
and blue because it is less
straining on the eyes. Some
common uses of Red light
are in dark rooms for developing film, emergency sirens
signaling danger, and Red
light is used to indicate the
flash on a camera. In nature,
apples are red to attract animals to spread their seed
so that they can reproduce.
Other things in life nature
that are Red include dying
stars, fall leaves, and our
blood.
Blue: Blue is a very
calming color and is used
in calm and relaxed envi-

ronments. A light shade of
Blue is commonly used to
represent baby boys. Blue is
also a standard color used
in uniforms because it helps
the employee to seem more
approachable. Phone lights
are widely Blue, and Blue
light is used in most offices
and workplaces because
the light often causes more
people to be alert during the
workday. Not only is the sky
Blue, but water is as well
because it’s color is a reflection of the sky’s color. Blue
is also a rare color in nature.
According to Rick Plum “Blue
is fascinating because the
vast majority of animals are
incapable of making it with

pigments,”
Yellow: Yellow is a
very warming color and is a
happy color. The color Yellow
is used in cities on many different types of signs. This
is most likely because light
reflects off of Yellow Signs
the best. Yellow is also the
most visible color in the
color spectrum. Both margarine and butter are different shades of yellow. Street
lights, taxis, and tennis balls
are also yellow. Eggs are
also often yellow. Yellow is
also a prevalent color for
flowers and many fruits and
vegetables are yellow when
ripe.

ERRATA: We forgot to include our Editor-In-Chief, Austin Hodges, in the Byline of the ENMU President Interview last
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